Kentucky General Assembly

The April 15 constitutional deadline looms and in this week's edition of Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about the difference between Concurrence and a Conference Committee. Both procedures will be getting quite the workout in the final days of this legislative session.

This week on WUKY's Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about the impending impeachment trial in the Senate of Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman, and the acceptance of a public reprimand by another Kentucky judge. Also discussed are pending actions regarding Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine and the potential removal of Fayette County School Board Chair Tyler Murphy.

Lawmakers in Frankfort have less than 20 days to complete their work in the current legislative session. This week on Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock tells us about a number of proposed constitutional amendments that could make it to the finish line and appear on the fall ballot.

In this edition of the Capitol Chat recap, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about several proposed bills that reflect GOP priorities at the national level including immigration and voting reforms.

This week on WUKY's Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about the executive, transportation, judicial and legislative bills House lawmakers are tasked with passing and sending on to the Senate. At the start of this week the tally read, two down and two to go. Could the remaining measures follow suit this week?

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled to Frankfort last week to encourage Kentucky to join an effort to amend the US Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. In this week's Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about the perils, promises and pitfalls that could ensue should the commonwealth choose to embark on that route.

In the Capitol Chat Recap, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock talks about the amendments House Democrats want added to the GOP two year spending plan.

Rep. Daniel Grossberg, a Louisville Democrat, accused in 2024 of inappropriate behavior towards women, has agreed to pay $2,000 in fines to the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission, but the controversy is far from over. This week on Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock tells us about some depositions involving prominent Kentucky Democrats and what they reveal about the case.

We’re now a third of the way through the 2026 Kentucky General Assembly, the first of three anticipated to be held in the temporary chambers beside the parking garage during the Capitol’s $300 million rennovation.

The leadership in the Kentucky Senate has identified education reform as a high priority in this legislative session. In fact the first 5 bills filed in the chamber deal with the topic. Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette has been studying them and she talks in depth about what they would address.